Test 8 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta
Minotaur in my game, half bull half man. Real or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: half bull · What happens: man
This is test 8 of lesson 11 «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Minotaur in my game, half bull half man.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minotaur | minotaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 game | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 game | nmod:poss |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Minotaur | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 bull | compound |
| 7 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | nsubj |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 man | compound |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Minotaur | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Minotaur | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | man | half bull | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: Real or nah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 nah | cc |
| 3 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 1 Real | discourse |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Real | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Real, found in Crete in 1900
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Crete | case |
| 5 | Crete | Crete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1900 | case |
| 7 | 1900 | 1900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 found | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | participle · passive | Real | Crete | in 1900 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
Option 2
A myth; nobody ever leapt over bulls on Crete
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 myth | det |
| 2 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leapt | nsubj |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 leapt | punct |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 leapt | nsubj |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 leapt | advmod |
| 6 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 bulls | case |
| 8 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 leapt | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Crete | case |
| 10 | Crete | Crete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 leapt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leapt | past | a myth | Crete | ever | over bulls | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A myth; the bull-leaping was real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 myth | det |
| 2 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 real | nsubj |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaping | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 leaping | det |
| 5 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaping | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bull | punct |
| 7 | leaping | leaping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 myth | conj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 real | cop |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a myth and the bull leaping | real property | tree rules |
Option 4
Real, but it was a cow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cow | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cow | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 cow | cc |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cow | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cow | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cow | det |
| 7 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a Real cow | tree rules |
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